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[v3,23/52] x86, intel, cacheinfo: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

Message ID 20140310203757.10746.76090.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
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Srivatsa S. Bhat March 10, 2014, 8:37 p.m. UTC 
Subsystems that want to register CPU hotplug callbacks, as well as perform
initialization for the CPUs that are already online, often do it as shown
below:

	get_online_cpus();

	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
		init_cpu(cpu);

	register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);

	put_online_cpus();

This is wrong, since it is prone to ABBA deadlocks involving the
cpu_add_remove_lock and the cpu_hotplug.lock (when running concurrently
with CPU hotplug operations).

Instead, the correct and race-free way of performing the callback
registration is:

	cpu_notifier_register_begin();

	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
		init_cpu(cpu);

	/* Note the use of the double underscored version of the API */
	__register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);

	cpu_notifier_register_done();


Fix the intel cacheinfo code in x86 by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c |   13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)


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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
index 0641113..a952e9c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_cacheinfo.c
@@ -1225,21 +1225,24 @@  static struct notifier_block cacheinfo_cpu_notifier = {
 
 static int __init cache_sysfs_init(void)
 {
-	int i;
+	int i, err = 0;
 
 	if (num_cache_leaves == 0)
 		return 0;
 
+	cpu_notifier_register_begin();
 	for_each_online_cpu(i) {
-		int err;
 		struct device *dev = get_cpu_device(i);
 
 		err = cache_add_dev(dev);
 		if (err)
-			return err;
+			goto out;
 	}
-	register_hotcpu_notifier(&cacheinfo_cpu_notifier);
-	return 0;
+	__register_hotcpu_notifier(&cacheinfo_cpu_notifier);
+
+out:
+	cpu_notifier_register_done();
+	return err;
 }
 
 device_initcall(cache_sysfs_init);